bûcher

See also: bucher, Bucher, and Bücher

French

Alternative forms

• bucher ((1990 reform spelling))

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /by.ʃe/

Etymology 1

From bûche +‎ -er.

Noun

bûcher m (plural bûchers)

1. woodshed (enclosed, roofed structure, often an outbuilding, used primarily to store firewood)
2. pyre (funeral pile; combustible heap on which corpses are burned)
3. stake (pile of wood on which a person condemned to death is burned)
4. (in the plural) the flames of Hell

Etymology 2

From bûche +‎ -er.

Verb

bûcher

1. to hew
2. (informal) to slug away, to hit the books

Conjugation

Conjugation of bûcher (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	bûcher
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	bûchant /by.ʃɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		bûché /by.ʃe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	bûche /byʃ/	bûches /byʃ/	bûche /byʃ/	bûchons /by.ʃɔ̃/	bûchez /by.ʃe/	bûchent /byʃ/
	imperfect	bûchais /by.ʃɛ/	bûchais /by.ʃɛ/	bûchait /by.ʃɛ/	bûchions /by.ʃjɔ̃/	bûchiez /by.ʃje/	bûchaient /by.ʃɛ/
	past historic2	bûchai /by.ʃe/	bûchas /by.ʃa/	bûcha /by.ʃa/	bûchâmes /by.ʃam/	bûchâtes /by.ʃat/	bûchèrent /by.ʃɛʁ/
	future	bûcherai /byʃ.ʁe/	bûcheras /byʃ.ʁa/	bûchera /byʃ.ʁa/	bûcherons /byʃ.ʁɔ̃/	bûcherez /byʃ.ʁe/	bûcheront /byʃ.ʁɔ̃/
	conditional	bûcherais /byʃ.ʁɛ/	bûcherais /byʃ.ʁɛ/	bûcherait /byʃ.ʁɛ/	bûcherions /by.ʃə.ʁjɔ̃/	bûcheriez /by.ʃə.ʁje/	bûcheraient /byʃ.ʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	bûche /byʃ/	bûches /byʃ/	bûche /byʃ/	bûchions /by.ʃjɔ̃/	bûchiez /by.ʃje/	bûchent /byʃ/
	imperfect2	bûchasse /by.ʃas/	bûchasses /by.ʃas/	bûchât /by.ʃa/	bûchassions /by.ʃa.sjɔ̃/	bûchassiez /by.ʃa.sje/	bûchassent /by.ʃas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	bûche /byʃ/	—	bûchons /by.ʃɔ̃/	bûchez /by.ʃe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Further reading

• “bûcher”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.